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Just need some new road paint in those towns and Portland's off the list forever.
Except those intellectuals in the red states think bike riding is part of a One World UN plot to convert the US to communism. Probably won't see too many of their fat a--es riding bikes!

The only place for miles that you can cross the Willamette. Maybe the cyclist had no choice. Of course the truck driver had every right to be there but the cyclist was there on his own risk assumption.

The next time there is a fatal car accident on Highway 18 should we ask whether the victims should have chosen to be there?

I know in Oregon that lethal force is only allowed when you are in fear for your life, as you say. The laws vary from state to state so WA may be different. Still seems over the top to shoot and kill a prowler outside your home. What if the "prowler" was picking up the poop his dog left on the front lawn?

"Every year it happens. Some idiot goes up into the woods unprepared. Luckily this didn't end in tragedy."

Right. Next it will be "how can some idiot be so unprepared as to wander into areas without cell phone service". These people were never in danger and there were no irresponsible decisions whatsoever. They were aware of the risks and managed the outcome when things headed south.

I dropped the TV side of Comcast cable and kept the internet connection. I'd drop that if there were an alternative but I need the bandwidth for Netflix and MLB.com. I put up a good antenna in my attic and I get a better HD signal than I did with cable for off the air broadcasting which is more than satisfactory for the couple hours a week that I watch a few PBS shows.

Seems the cable companies have evolved a product that people don't want. The future is streaming just the shows you want over the internet using devices like Apple TV, which I have, for Netflix, MLB.com and hopefully much more in the near future.

You mean the Freedom Bombs? At $1mil each we just spent 10 years of the savings provided by cutting the NPR budget. How many seconds of the Iraq/Afghanistan war would it take to spend $5mil? This is all about punching hippies in the face and nothing to do with reality.

If the "magic" of the free market was applied to the nuclear power industry there would be no more nukes built and many if not all of the existing plants would shut down. The only way the industry here and abroad exists is through government indemnification of the risks. This is the situation in Japan and here in the US as well. The Japanese people will end up paying for this mess, not Tokyo Electric Power. Socialize the risks, privatize the profits! A sure-fire recipe for risk taking by the masters of the universe. Where have we seen that before?

Faux news will label the perp as an apolitical nut thereby absolving any responsibility for the violent vitriol that they routinely broadcast. Or better yet, they will concoct a lie that he is a liberal. The fix is in. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

I stopped watching TV when Comcast required I use one of their set-top boxes over a year ago. Crappy hardware with a tuner that was much worse than that on my TV. How many people buy expensive TVs with state of the art tuners only to be required to use the Comcast box? Besides, that box allows Comcast to know exactly what you watch. How does that feel?

I use Comcast for internet only. Unfortunately, they have the fastest connection in this area otherwise I would dump that too.

Thanks NE PDX Guy, very interesting numbers. It's almost comical, all the whining from the rural wingnuts about government employment being the cause of Dudley's demise when they themselves are more dependent on the public tit. But of course you know facts have a liberal bias.

That "loser" may have been a cancer patient trying to cope with the effects of chemotherapy. Cancer patients have the legal right to use marijuana to alleviate those side effects as do many others in need of medical marijuana.